Book of Mormon Studies Podcast: Alma 1-29 with Kimberly Matheson

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🗓️ 2 June 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Thanks for listening to another episode of the Book of Mormon Studies Podcast. In this episode, Rosalynde Welch, Associate Director of the Maxwell Institute and Host of the podcast talks with Kimberly Matheson, the Laura F. Willes Research Fellow at the Maxwell Institute.In this episode, they discuss the text of the book of Alma, giving it context for readers of the Come, Follow Me curriculum for 2024.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Maxwell Institute Book of Mormon Studies podcast.
0:11.2	I'm Rosalind Welch and I am here with Kim Matheson, who is my colleague at the Maxwell Institute.
0:16.2	She is the Laura F. Willis Research Fellow.
0:19.3	She specializes in Book of Mormon theology. And she is here
0:24.1	with us today to talk about the first half of the Book of Alma. The Book of Alma is the longest
0:31.4	book in the Book of Mormon. So we decided to break it in half so that we could get a little
0:36.5	closer in, zoom in a little bit
0:38.6	on these wonderful chapters here in Alma 1 through 29.
0:43.6	Kim, what is it that we should know in terms of context as we get started reading this book?
0:50.0	Well, a lot.
0:51.7	Unfortunately, I don't believe in mincing words, so I think we dive right in. And most of the context that I have to share with listeners on the first half of Alma is just heavily political. We open the book of Alma on the heels of a lot of political change and a lot of important kind of subtle details
1:14.1	from late in the book of Mosiah.
1:16.3	And it comes thick and fast.
1:18.1	So apologies, but it's useful.
1:21.6	And it's necessary, I think, really, to understand the first half of the book of Alma.
1:28.1	And I think where I would, the deep end in which I'm going to toss listeners has to do with a little
1:36.2	group among the Nephites known as the Mulekites. We meet them in Mosiah 25. Well, we don't meet
1:42.1	them in Mosiah 25, but we learn a detail about them there. We learned in Mosiah 25. Well, we don't meet them in Mosiah 25, but we learn in detail about them there.
1:45.5	We learned in Mosiah 25 that despite the Nephites having a lot of political and cultural power in Zarah Himmla, their capital, they are not actually in the majority.
1:56.9	The Nephites have been a minority group population-wise ever since they showed up in this region.
2:03.6	And the majority demographic are the Mulekites, these original settlers who Mosaic's grandfather ran into when he moved into the area.
2:12.6	And what we're seeing as we head into the first half of Alma is that that simple disparity, that difference in population, is creating a lot of social tension.
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